The Combat Film

Who were the director and the stars of this filem? What effect did their presence have in this filme and the publics \'s view of it?

What were the combat or battle scenes like? Describe them. What did they look like and how were they shot ( in rapid cuts, or in long takes)? How were they lit? How did these combat or battle scenes affect the overall tone of the film?

How was the enemy characterised in this film? How did American characters describe and or talk about the enemy? How did the enemy look and behave?

What cultural influences were present in the film? Was there a portrayal of the ideal platoon? How were the different races, religious, ethnic groups and genders treated?

How did the filme define the main characters? Was there one central hero or a community of heroes?Did they want to fight, or were the really pacifists who were forced to fight? How did the feel about war?

Was there any propaganda presented in this film? How was it depicted?

Were there any mixed messages regarding war presented in this films? Describe the way they were presented.


Name of the Movie: Hacksaw Ridge

the paper is to be a 9 page essay. It is to be done in MLA format. it needs several items. 1. a cover page 2.a works cited page. this essay is to be a comparison contrast of sylvia plath and esther greenwood the main character in her novel the bell jar. the first part of the essay must be about sylvia plath herself. the second part of the essay is to be a summary of the Bell Jar. the main part of the essay is to be about a comparison contrast of sylvia and esther. how esther and sylvias lives compare and how they differ. to me esther greenwood is plaths alter ego. I see a bit of feminism in relation to both the character and sylvia. I also see a dislike of the mother in both parties. however, as long as it is a comparison contrast of the two. i will let you decide how to write it. I need it to sound intelligent but not overly intelligent i am after all just a college freshman. I tend to be a colorful writer so all i ask is that u try not to sound to staunchy or stuffy. once again. I am requesting a WORK CITED PAGE accompany this paper please. i also need a footnotes page and an epigram page. once again i need a cover page, an epigram, the paper itself, a notes page, and a work cited page. thank you

this is a film project. please choose one of the films on the list below to do the assignment.

Channing-Williams, S. (producer) & Leigh, M. (Director) 1996. The movie is SECRETS AND LIES. Great Britain, channel four films.

Dale, M. (producer) & Lemmons, K. (director) 2007. the film is called TALK TO ME. United States: Focus Feartures.

Grazer, B. (producer) & Lee, M (director) 2002. its called UNDERCOVER BROTHER. United states, universal studios.

Danon, M (producer) and Nichols, M. (director) 1996. THE BIRDCAGE. United states, MGM.


According to Adams (1996) in his book The Multicultural Imagination, our perceptions, beliefs and ideas about individuals of other cultures and groups are based in the relationship of the Self to the other as the other has been described by the early anthropologists. In this project you will explore Self-Other relationships as they are portrayed in the film.

in this project you will compare perspectives of the self and the other when diversity is present with respect to culture, ethnicity, class, gender and or sexual orientation and able bodied vs. disability status. You will evaluate ways in which sterotypes influenece patterns of communication and interaction between groups, and may create barriers to the formation of interpersonal relationships. This project addresses the following objectives:

1. Identify the historical circumstances that have differentially affected persons of particular cultural and ethnic groups, gender identities, sexual orientations, and persons who have disabilities who may come to us as clinicians for psychotherapy.

2. I will increase my awareness of my own normative beliefs and ideas about family roles and structures, religious/spiritual beliefs and related rituals, individual and personal priorities and goals and the process of individuation, and their expectations for relationships with others. I will identify the ways in which my own personal beliefs may differ from the beliefs and expectations of my clients, and how this divergence may affect the experience of psychotherapy

3. I will identify ways in which mental and physical illness and interpersonal relationships may be conceptualized related to the other culture in which an individual or group in embedded and or participates.

REACTION PAPER SHOULD INCLUDE:

1. SUMMERIZE THE PLOT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN A PARAGRAPH OR TWO.

2. WRITE YOUR REACTION TO THE FILM. YOU MAY CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS AS YOU RESPOND TO THE FILM:

How does the self or the selves in a group define itself and the Other? based on which characteristics?
how does the self/selves perceive the gender role, gender identity, gender orientation of the other?
how does the self/selves perceive the work reole/roles of the other?
how does the self/selves perceive the family structure and or intimate relationsips of the other?
how do I think the self/selves believe it is perceived by the broader culture? how does the self believe the other is perceived by the broader culture?
Does the self believe that it is acceptable to openly confront or antagonize the other?
What has been the historical relationship between the self and the other?
which aspects of the other are most unacceptable to the self, and vice versa?

3. NOW HYPOTHESIZE ABOUT THE UNCONSCIOUS ASPECTS OF SELF/OTHER PERCEPTIONS. WHICH SYMBOLS AND ARCHETYPES MAY BE INVOLVED?


please use the tHREE books REQUIRE as needed in this film project AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES IF YOU WANT.

1..Adams, M.V. (1996). (Chapters 1,2,3 only) The Multicultural Imagination: "Race", Color, and the Unconscious by Michael Vannoy Adams

2. Robinson-Wood, T. 2009. chapter one only. The convergence of race, ethnicity and gender: Multiple identities in counseling. Priceton, NC: Merrill.

3. APA 6TH EDITION IS REQUIRED NOTHING ELSE.

First Short Essay Assignment for Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane.

Due Oct, 20th.

The story Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, is a devastating portrait of the Johnson family, particularly the siblings Jimmie and Maggie, living in New York Citys Bowery during the late 19th century. First published by Crane himself in 1893, Maggie offers a naturalistic portrait of lower-class life in the immigrant neighborhood of New Yorks lower east side.
While I hope you enjoyed Cranes story, what we are more interested in here is what Cranes story tells us about the conditions of those who lived in the Bowery during the late 19th century, and, by extension, all those living in lower- and working-class urban situations during this period. To that end, your assignment is to write using Cranes Maggie, and only Maggie, as evidence for your argument a two-to-three page essay that answers the following questions:

What are the general outlines of Cranes story Maggie: A Girl of the Streets? Who are the storys main characters? What happens to them?
What are the general conditions in which the story is set? What are the conditions in which Jimmie, Maggie, and Pete lived? In which they worked? In which they played? What were the conditions that influenced the contours of their lives?
If you were an upper-class reformer, which problems associated with lower-class life in the Bowery would you try to address? How specifically did these problems effect the characters in Maggie? And how would you attempt to solve them?

When answering the above questions you might also keep in mind the following questions. What role did violence play? Alcohol? Religion? What role does environment play? How does the issue of class effect these characters? Ethnicity? Gender? What kinds of work is being done by these characters, or is available to them? What types of entertainment was available to these characters and how is that important?
Be sure to begin your essay with a strong thesis paragraph that tells me how you intend specifically - to answer the questions.
You will need to provide evidence for your answers using specific information and this information needs to be footnoted using the Chicago Manual of Style format. Ill provide a separate document on Blackboard to show you how this is to be done.
Be sure to use short essay format that I outlined in your syllabus. Papers must be typed, double-spaced, using a 10-12 inch font, with 1 margins. You must also have a cover page with your name, date, title, etc. Your name must not appear anywhere in the body of your essay.
Note that Ive pushed back the due date of this essay. Remember too that your paper will receive a full letter deduction for every day your paper is late no excuses!

After reading "The Death of Ivan Illyich," "Hedda Gabler," and "Lady With the Dog," write a paper about the customs and manners of 19th century society. Consider the society in which they lived and how that society affected each of the main characters: use examples from the stories to show how these characters might have been impeded by those around them or how they might have affected others to suit their own needs. Feel free to expand this topic to include ideas you have about these settings and times.

This essay has to be divided into 2 parts.

The first part will deal with the novel (about 2 pages):
How its central motifs are related to Postmodernism and Existentialism.
In this fashion, discuss the construction of identity of the main characters focusing on the modernist idea of "identity in perpetual construction".

The second part will deal with the movie adaptation of the novel by Karel Reisz from 1981, starring Jermy Irons and Meryl Streep.
-It is important to explain how the narrative voice in the novel has been dealt with in the movie and to which extent the adaptation is considered successful.
-Any existential/postmodenist traits in the movie.

The text will be thoroughly checked for plagiarism.

The format of the review is double-spaced, typewritten, 8.5?x11? paper (normal size) and 1? margins (normal size). You must proofread and correct grammatical errors before you turn it in. EOP has tutors for this, and the department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies (2nd floor, Nasatir Hall) has a writing lab that is open to everyone.
Your grade will be based in equal parts on the five parts described below, plus grammar and clarity.
The following comes from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. They describe themselves as ?One of the finest independent college preparatory schools in the nation.? You can judge for yourself at .

How to Write a Movie Review:
The Five Parts (Paragraphs) of a Movie Review
Taken with slight modifications from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools


(1) Opening: Catch the Reader's Attention.
Think about how advertisements sell movies: "trailers" show you a few seconds of the movie to get you interested. When you begin your movie review, make your own "trailer." If you liked the movie, then your trailer should make people want to see it; but if you didn't like it, the trailer should be something that shows why you didn't like it. Don't explain why you liked it or didn't like it; make the reader like or not like the movie by what you describe. Begin your review by retelling an incident or moment from the movie which you think captures the spirit of the movie as you understood it.
Alternative: Begin your review with another kind of story or interesting fact--about one of the star actors, or about the making of the movie, or about the director.

(2) Second Paragraph: Take Care of Business.
Near the beginning of the review, you have to tell the reader all the obligatory stuff--the title of the movie, the director, the studio, the main actors, the year it was made (if you watched it on video), the rating. This paragraph tells the reader the things they have to know about the movie. Also, in one sentence or two, you should explain very simply what the movie is all about--not necessarily what happens, but that might work, too, if you can say it in one two sentences.

(3) Third Paragraph: Character and plot summary.
What happens in the movie? You shouldn't tell everything that happens--and especially not the ending. But you want to summarize the basic plot of the movie, in more detail than you do in the paragraph above. One way to do this might be to write a sentence about each main character.

(4) Fourth Paragraph: A Key Moment or Idea.
In this paragraph, go into detail about something important that interested you about the movie. If it was a musical, you should say something about the songs. Or if the soundtrack was good, talk about that. Or write more about one character who was really intriguing. Or retell another big moment from the movie and explain why it is important. If you think the "idea" behind a movie was really interesting, explain that idea and talk about it a little bit. In this paragraph, you must go into depth about the movie.

(5) Fifth Paragraph: Evaluate the Movie.
Do you recommend it or not? Who will like it (kids or adults)? The most important thing here is that you must also explain why you are making your recommendation. You must justify your opinion--and that opinion should grow out of what you write in the rest of the review. Give at least two reasons why you liked or didn't like the movie.

Do it on the movie Scarface.

SHORT PAPER ON A DOLL?S HOUSE by Henrik Ibsen
This paper, one of two you will do in this course, may be 3-4 pages in length. IT must have an Introduction, Body and Conclusion, with a creative Title. It is a thesis paper, SO you may come up with ideas that you describe and explain, based on some of the following:
1) Theme, Plot and Structure, Character, Superobjective or Purpose of the play, and/or how the play?s ideas are still important to our times, relationships and social behavior.
2) How are Nora, Torvald, Christine, Krogstad or Dr. Rank different from the ?Stock Characters? described in the Commedia Dell?Arte plays of the 16th-18th centuries? (see pp. 75 in Ch. 4??Creating the Blueprint? under the heading ?Creating Dramatic Characters? in your text.)
3) How is Doll?s House an example of ?the Well-Made Play??
a) Plot based on a secret known to Audience but unknown to the characters.
b) Increasingly suspenseful Plot based on the ups and downs of the characters, and the Exposition of their CIRCUMSTANCES.
c) The greatest ?mishap? to the main character?s or hero?s fortune, known as the ?peripeteia?, which forces the ?obligatory scene? in the Climax of the play, marked by a disclosure of secrets.
d) A central misunderstanding known to the Auidence but not all characters.
e) Logical and credible ?denouement?
f) Reproduction of this structure in each ACT of the play.
4) Superobjective or Purpose of the whole play?How does Doll?s House fit into the idea of Tragedy as a genre described in Ch. 5, pp. 85-87, or section on ?Traditional Tragedy??
5) What are the Moral obligations Ibsen presents, vs. our so-called ?traditional morals? of the Middle Class family>?
6) What do Nora and Torvald represent? What do Christine and Krogstad? What does Dr. Rank represent??in terms of values, society, morals and/or behavior?
7) What are the characters? relationships to Money, Romantic Love, Duty, Society, Ambition and Life Goals, or Male and Female Perspectives?
8) How is the play an example of the genre of Realism? Could you compare it to Much Ado About Nothing,?which, from Shakespeare?s time, is NOT a ?Realist?-style play
These are just some ideas you will use in your paper; remember, ?if I had had more time, I would have written a shorter letter??so be succinct, but clear and structured: this is not a ?stream of consciousness? paper, but a planned and complete thesis, based on your understanding of the play. Pick some of the issues above; not all. ?Your talent is in your choice.? ;)

Compare and contrast the ways The Great Gatsby and one of the Hawthorne short stories (the birthmark, young goodman brown, rappaccini's daughter, roger malvins burial, or artist of the beautiful) use the theme of wilderness or of nature to help the reader understand more fully the complexity of at least one main character and the meaning of the text as a whole. Where is the wilderness (or nature) located-literally and metaphorically? To what extent do hawthorne and fitzgerald suggest similar and/or dissimilar understandings of the wilderness or of nature? To what extent do these two authors suggest similar or different ways in which one of their main characters is shaped by Natures influence, or by an experience in the wilderness. (we talked in class about wilderness being not only nature, but could be the "wilderness" inside their head)

Romanticism and its elements in Black Elk Speaks, THe Sorrows of young Werther, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Discuss the relationship of the INDIVIDUAL, to society/culture in the three books
Moral situation, the choices they made and what motivated the main characters

First paraqgraph is key, and underline thesis
Do not begin or end paragraph with quote

writer:kiran1976

Review of Christopher Moore's "Louisbourg Portraits"

Through a study of all the main characters in this book we learn much of the life in and around Louisbourg. In analyzing each of the characters how would you classify life in this town and what do we learn about migrant life in the eighteenth century?

Choose 3 central themes that can be sustained from character to character and describe how those themes shape the lives of each person.

Please use footnotes

Choose 9-14 Questions they each have to be at least 1 page long.
Based on multiple books
I need the 9-14 because i need the extra credit.

Here are the directions....

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Please answer 8 out of the 14 questions below. Each answer should be a minimum of 300 and a maximum of 450 words. The total length of the assignment should be 2400-3200 words. Please double-space your answers.
2. List the number of the question you are answering. For example: if question number 5 is the 3rd question you are answering, number that as 5 and not as 3.
3. You may answer ONE extra question for extra credit that will count toward your class participation grade if you have not been participating. If you have been participating, do not answer this extra question. If you have not participated at all, this question is offered to help a little bit (not to make up for an entire semester).
4. In your answers (to the extent that this is not specified below), please keep in mind the general themes we've been discussing all semester, including the complexities of cross-cultural perception (exoticism, xenophobia, and the rarer approach of taking a different culture as seriously as one takes ones own), colonialism and its aftermath, the complexities of identity, mis-readings based upon stereotypes, and the projection of ideas and identities from one person onto another person or group. When authors create characters from different backgrounds they must rely on a combination of observation and imagination. Sometimes this works and sometimes it does not, but keep this in mind as you answer your questions. (Translation: if youre running out of things to say, refer to this note #4 to find things to say.)


QUESTIONS:

1. Explore the consequences of the use and misuse of power in Bad Day at Black Rock and two of the following works: This Blessed House, Pym, or Henderson the Rain King. Who has power? How do the protagonists of each story react to the use or misuse of power?
2. In Henderson the Rain King King Dahfu creates a productive synthesis of traditional and modern points of view that he has been exposed to. How does Dahfu synthesize these approaches to nature? How does he compare in this regard to other characters (such as NGana Frimbo in The Conjure-Man Dies)?
3. Bubber Brown in The Conjure-Man Dies and Garth Frierson in Pym are both less educated than the main characters around them and supply each story with both comic relief and a perspective different from the better educated characters.
4. Macon Detornay and Eugene Henderson are very similar in some important ways and different in other ways. Please discuss and elaborate their similarities and differences, taking into account the plots and themes of Angry Black White Boy and Henderson the Rain King.
5. Was Easley Jones a real person or was he completely a creation of Sam Crouch? Argue for or against and provide evidence from the text of The Conjure-Man Dies.
6. Compare these relationships and how the following relationships drive the plots of the novels in which they appear: Macon and Nique, Henderson and Dahfu, Archer and Frimbo.
7. Dr. Stephen Albert in The Garden of Forking Paths, Macon Detornay, and Mr. Kapasi are all experts or have developed some expertise after studying groups that are not the group they were born into. What are some interesting problems or questions that arise from these situations?
8. Many of the characters we have examined find themselves trying to adjust to new surroundings and trying to read the signs of their new surroundings. Do they exoticize (superficially celebrate) their new surroundings or do they perhaps project a pre-conceived image of what those surroundings should be onto their surroundings? Possible characters you may discuss are Twinkle, the narrator of The Aleph (Borges), the protagonist of The Approach to Al MuTassim, Macon, Henderson, Archer, Chris Jaynes, Garth Frierson, or Arthur Gordon Pym.
9. Macready (in Bad Day at Black Rock) and Macon Detornay both find themselves in perilous situations. How did they get there, why are they there, and how did the situations end, and why? How are both narratives significant for their dissection and representation of the prejudices of Macreadys and Macons antagonists?
10. In The Aleph and The Congress, Borges deals with similar themes (the quest for universal knowledge, etc.). I see The Congress as a riff on The Aleph. But the stark difference, aside from the lack of a supernatural element in The Congress, is the opposite backgrounds of the narrators. Please discuss and explain.
11. In nearly everything we read or watched, something goes terribly wrong, or something very carefully planned ends up happening not as planned, and that leads the story toward its resolution, for better or worse. Please discuss how plans go awry in these works in detail using at least five works (possible choices include Henderson the Rain King, Angry Black White Boy, Pym, The Conjure-Man Dies, The Congress, Interpreter of Maladies.)
12. We noted that Interpreter of Maladies was derived from/inspired by Ernest Hemingways short story The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. a) Please compare and analyze the similarities and differences of these two stories. b) Discuss another story that was inspired by an older story and examine the similarities and differences between them.
13. Compare and contrast Chris Jayness finding of Arthur Gordon Pym with Hendersons finding of Dahfu and Yu Tsuns finding of Stephen Albert.
14. Do you have your own great idea for a question and answer? Make up the question and answer it. You must make the question/answer deal with texts that we read (or the film we watched) and themes we discussed.

The essay is for a critical media course. It is not supposed to be an opinion piece....rather as the teacher puts it 'use the question to ask more questions'. We are not expected to come to a specific conclusion in the essay. Please find below the initial idea of the essay as well as my professors response. This is essential to understanding the kind of layered essay he is looking for.

On 27 Nov 2010, at 14:16, Shaoli Rudra wrote:

Dear .....,

Sorry for this alteration. I thought I could take the popular TV series 'Sex and the City' and use it to challenge her notion of the male gaze as in the series its the woman who is the active possessor of the gaze and it is men who are objectified. However there are also elements of the show that can re-emphasise Mulvey's argument. I was wondering if I can bring that up as well? Do we have to come to a definite conclusion in the essay?

Regards,
Shaoli



Dear Shaoli

The broad topic is fine. The issue is how to make it specific enough to handle coherently and produce evidence in 5,000 words. That probably means taking one, or at the most two, episodes. You may also need to use short clips from the episodes to make the point or at the least screen shots. Submission now is on BLE and I do not know if it can handle video. If it can't, don't worry, that is BLE's problem. We are doing media and the rubric permits you to use audio-visual materials.

On the theoretical argument, obviously you realize that you need to be critical, perhaps not so much of Mulvey herself, but of the entire industry that has grown up around her article (which she largely disavows now). If you have read my Here's looking at you, kid, then you will know that 'the gaze' conflates several different ideas and historical senses of the gaze - e.g. carceral and medical - which leaves out filmic and televisual. That is the sort of topic on which Baudrillard has written as well as Foucault. No, you do not have to come to a definite conclusion. Indeed, it would probably be wise not to. Most serious writing is taking one problem or question, working on it and coming out with a better question at the end.

Another question you should ask is: is this actually just about gender? Remember Butler refuses the condensation of sex and gender. Also, how much is about class? We are seeing a certain wealthy bourgeois life-style represented. And what is the implicit role of ethnicity when you see Anglo-Saxon (or Jewish) figures being paraded as ideal types?

Best
....

As you will see above, a single episode of the show or at max two can be used. I would like to use the very first episode of the show which Im presuming you can get access to. Otherwise I shall try and send it. If the writer deems necessary another episode of their choice can be referred to.

After further discussion with the teacher, the following rough outline has been formed. These elements must be included in the essay. I shall be sending readings and other resources as well.



ROUGH OUTLINE:

Deconstruct what a gaze is:

Mulvey's original idea of the gaze

Gaze not limited to film or television - so many kinds of gaze -the gaze is not neutral- Gaze is imprinting of an image that is politicized by ones own context - we bring preconceived social constructs to the imprinted image - so the gaze acts as a filter/imprinter of these social codes and gathers together cues from our context that becomes crystallized into an image


Gaze and power (Foucault)

Describe the female gaze in the show - 'Looking' at men - By so called 'objectifying' men, are the main characters now empowered and in a position of control?

The problems within the show itself- The opening credits- how elements of the show ( eg: Fashion) actually seem antagonistic to the 'empowered woman' concept of the series.

Examine the TV Industry
To understand Mulveys essay is to understand the Film industry of the late 70s - differentiate it from the TV industries today - Has TV developed on the same traditions of the film industry? - the predominance of male in mulveys tv and film industry - the men are the producers and intended receivers/viewers - women are objectified in this male narrative. But in todays industry - a rise of female viewership means even if producers are male - the narrative has suddenly been feminized or womanised - re: rise of soap operas. Does this change the nature of the objectification or simply nuance it? (use Fiske)

Gender and Sex as two different concepts
Mulveys essay explores how female positions in the male narrative are either objectified by the gaze (heroine, vamp) or de-sexualised (mother/sister/daughter/nun?)- can women have a male gaze and vice versa - explore the notions of what womens roles are and what female roles are - is there a difference between sex and gender - is mulveys article limiting herself to the objectified female which she brands as woman? Judith Butler to explore difference between sex and gender or the difficulty in conflating the two

Consciousness of Class
TV and Film in Mulveys time being a privilege of the bourgeois - is this true today - the idea of TV portraying an aspirational class - one with wealth. This problematizes the image of female as fashioned through the gaze - are we only exploring the bourgeois gaze - what does this do to the social codes/cues

Sex and The City

Gaze:
Questions you want to ask yourself - is this an example of a female gaze? it is a womens gaze? is there a difference? Is the gaze influenced by the fact that although the narrative is solely female - the producers of the message (HBO) - male dominated? Are we able to refute Mulveys notion of the camera as a phallus - or are there nuanced variations to the objectification?ORhas there been a reversal of the objectification - are men occupying the space of mulveys women in this paradigm

There are faxes for this order.

All citations in paper will be from the plays themselves. Just use Act, Scene, and line number, written as (II. iv. 129-130).
Example on how I want quotes to be shown...in this form.
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite" (II. ii. 133-35).


Size 11-12 font, Times New Roman, double-spaced.

I'm not very picky on which characters you choose to write on as having issues with their identity. But, why was it important for these identity uncertainties to be present within the main characters of Shakespeare's plays, or why was it so evident within his plays? Ie) Kate from Taming of Shrew, Romeo and Hamlet.... Just an idea, I need something to bring plays all together and make it sound smooth.

I'm going to give you list of plays we have read throughout semester, then you pick, this essay, MUST include at least 3 Shakespeare plays.

Midsummer Nights Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet.

Again, you pick whichever characters from plays listed above.

This is about Alexander Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin"
Here is a web link to it:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ekIbW0SsPCgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=eugene+onegin+alexander+pushkin&client=safari&cd=1#v=onepage&q=eugene%20onegin%20alexander%20pushkin&f=false

Here is the assignment, please read carefully:


One of the fundamental structural ironies of Onegin is that Eugene begins as a demystified ironist, immersed in, and yet detached from, his role playing. [..] But a second, equally important structural irony has been uncovered in the poets much more vivid, impassioned response to life: he is never responding to the life before him, only the absence of another time that the present necessarily implies. ( Monika Greenleaf, Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony [Stanford, 1994], pg. 238).

Read over this quotation a number of times, and be careful: Eugene is the character in the novel, the poet could be Pushkin himself, Lensky ( in the novel), or any poet. Eugene Onegin is the main piece of literature in Russian culture. It is viewed as perfection by many. But its role in Russian culture is like that of a poet: a marker of something lost, despite the fact that the main character may indeed be contemporary, even to us, and Tatyana (a character in the book) symbolizes an idealized femininity to man Russians. Write a three page reaction paper describing what you think has been shown in the novel that is now lost in todays world.

It is a Literacy/Narrative essay.
I need Writers

Please read the faxed papers that I will send so soon before writing where you could exactly know the structure of this assignment.

I will provide you with a brief background of my education since you will write a Narrative/literacy essay about myself.However, the most important thing is its structure and to be interesting rather than the ideas and background:

My first language is Arabic, I began learning English since I was a kid ( 7 years old) in school . My parents encouraged me to learn English since it's the most common worldwide used language. Looking forward for attending in an American University for education. I've been learning both English and Arabic, but Arabic was an inherent language since I was born. I've been learning English, and my Dad encouraged me to attend summer schools in the UK to improve my English. I attended ( King's Oxford school) in the UK where I participated in an intensive English course. After graduating from high school in Saudi Arabia, I was accepted with a scholarship in an Oil company where they provide an intensive preparation year for College life. from there I felt like I didn't use arabic language for a while. I experienced the college life with the foreign professors . Also, I experienced the TOEFL and IELTS international exams that are required for attending College.
That was a short brief background, Please explore the ideas, use a narrative tone, and descriptions Begin the Narrative essay with something similar to: I remember when I was 7 years old, I was sitting in an English class among other students seeing strange characters in the board where .....
Also, please say how reading and writing in English improved my experiences and let me achieve goals in college.

The goal of this assignment is to craft part of the story of your education as a user of language and how that experience will shape who you are as a student in your first year of college. By understanding your past experiences with literacy you will, hopefully, come to understand something about your purpose in college and how you hope to use your education.

A lot of unseen factors go into the acquisition and use of language that we are not aware of without careful study. Certainly there are economic, racial, social, regional, gender, and regional considerations that have informed your experience as a student. Your task is to try to identify one story in your own experience that somehow speaks to one of these concerns and tell us what happened and what that event means to you.

As a narrative, the expectation is that you will write that story using description, character, etc. as opposed to the more analytical forms of writing you have done in the previous two assignments. In a lot of ways, you should think of this as a short story wherein you are the main character. Perhaps the first thing you should do is think of the plot of your particular story. Who were you at the beginning? What tension is there that builds to a climax? How have you changed by the end? These are the questions that you should be asking.
How should I tell my story?
The first thing is to make sure you limit yourself to one story. That is not to say you cannot tell smaller stories or have digressions, but in an essay this short, you should be able to focus on just one moment in your life and fill the pages with details. Think of a traditional plot arch. There should be exposition to open your essay, rising tension/action, a climax, and then a brief dnouement (a resolution of some kind). All essays can take different forms, of course, but this is the most common way plots are constructed

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Please inform the writer that the papers will be faxed so soon and for this assignment the writer should be informed that :

Narrative structure: The Narrative has an arresting opening scene, introduces its characters and gives background, builds tension through opposition, has a pivotal moment, and then reflects on its story with final descriptions and images.

Narrative writing:The Narrative essay should rely on "story" elements: not only does this narrative forward the plot by describing action, but it also suggests a greater significance by way of those details and descriptions that at first seem unimportant but are eventually relevant by story's end.

Detail and Description: The Narrative essay should rely on concrete description instead of abstraction. " Showing" instead of " Telling" .

- Contraries: Obvious conflict is created within or between characters, is central in the plot, and it's meaningfully resolved.

- Significance: Narrative uses detail and description to suggest a larger significance; this narrative doesn't explain or summarize its significance. Instead it "Shows" its significance through detail .

This is a midterm paper. I need to respond for 2 of the following 3 questions. So it will be 2 short essays.
Question A
As it is stated in the beginning of Marquez's One hundred Years of Solitude, "the world was so recent that things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point." At the end of the book the author tells us that "Macondo was already a fearful whirlwind of dust and rubble being spun about the wrath of the biblical hurricane..." How do these extreme poles of creation and degeneration relate to the idea that history is not just cyclical but regressive that the author implies through his narrative?
Question B
Explain how the progression of time unfolds in One Hundred Years of Solitude. Is it straightforward or not? Is there any particular chronological order that the reader can detect through the story of Mocondo and its people? Moreover, how does time relate to the idea of solitude in this book?
Question C
Reality and imagination, history and fiction, are the contrasting elements that are at work both in Don Quixote and in One HUndred Years of Solitude. The premise that the truth can be stranger than fiction seems to be paramount for both Cervantes and Marquez. Using specific examples illustrate how the main characters in both works escape reality and create their own 'truth', and how their distorted reality shapes the narrative and affects the other characters.

So you just need to choose 2 topics and write 2 short essays 2 pages each. You can use the citation from the book but no other sources. Try to think small and illustrate your point of view clearly.
If you have any questions please let me know. Thank you.

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway...2 page personal response to show my theme "love is indestructible and has the power to transform an individual emotionally, intellectually and spiritually so he/she can gain self acceptance. (Avoid plot summary).Compare yourself to the main character, point out similarities,and differences and your reaction to this character. Why? Compare a character from this novel to another character in another novel. Explain similarities and differences and your response to each character in each novel. Compare an event in your work with a situation in your own life. Similarities? differences? Reasons for differences and your reaction? Express disagreements with a character's actions, values behaviour. What do you see wrong with it? Why? Why is the character acting this way and suggest a better response/behaviour/value. Select the most important episode in the book & explain briefly what happens and your reasons for your reaction. Why is this section important? Select at least three choices carefully and avoid repeating same examples. Give 3 quotations, points and supporting details.
Thanks.

You will need to read Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and Chekhov's "Ward No. 6"

The paper topic:
Compare the ideas about death that appear in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Chekhov's Ward No. 6. What purposes do the deaths of the protagonists serve in their respective stories? How do the deaths relate to the lives of the characters?

This is the thesis I sent my teacher and some things I thought about talking about in the paper, along with her response. You do not need to stick to my exact thesis statement.
Thesis Statement:
An analysis of Ward No. 6 and The Death of Ivan Ilyich reveals that death is a critical concept in both. While Ivan Ilyich and Dr. Andrei Yefimich are similar characters, the significance of their death is very different.

In this paper I hope to prove that Ward No. 6 and The Death of Ivan Ilyich are both fairly similar works. The main character s are comparable in their feelings about death, the way they interact with society, and the way they feel about their career. In addition, unreal is a word used to describe the life of both characters yet the process and purpose for their death is quite different. I will talk about the relevance of Ivans death making up the entire story while Andreis was out of the blue and how this related to their lives.

Teacher response:
This topic looks like a good start; Im not sure that youre quite at the final argument you will want to make yet, but its on the way. How important is it to argue that the two works are similar? That is, what does their similarity help you to understand about each work? When you say that the characters feelings about death are comparable, what precisely do you mean by that? And about the their careersisnt Ivan Ilyich much more successful professionally(at least outwardly)? You might argue that the difference is only outwardthat they are both failures in terms of the real thing, but you do need to account for the apparent differences too. I think you are right to want to explore the different uses of the deaths alongside these similarities, but do make sure to think about what those different uses illuminate about each story.

You will need to quote from both works in order to support the thesis. No other resources are needed but you can use them if they are literary criticisms.

This book report should be on the book, THE STOWAWAY by Nancy Rue. The paper should be at least be a page to a page and one half single spaced, and should cover 1. Who was involved in the story (main character and supporting characters), 2. What happened, 3. When it happened (time period), 4. Where it happened (location), and 5. Why it happened (the conflict).

Write an essay in which you respond and connect to "The Scarlet Ibis" as a reader. Your purpose is to analyze the work and support your analysis with evidence and quotes from the text. Organize your essay with an introduction,body(supporting paragraphs), and conclusion. In your intro., summarize the plot in a few sentences and include 1-2 sentences about the main characters. Include a thesis statement about why the work is meaningful to you. Did you relate to a certain character or situation? Perhaps you agreed or disagreed with a theme or main idea. State your thesis as a statement of fact. You may make a moral judgment, defend or criticize a character or idea, or simply react to a certain character or situation discussed in the work, but you need to express an opinion. The body of your essay will support your thesis. In your conclusion, you should summarize your thesis, as well as what you have said in your essay. Double- space your lines. Use MLA Style.

Identify the following aspects. Explain what each is within the novel and support with evidence from the story.

SETTING:Location and time period presented in the novel. What significance does the setting have for the overall story? Would the story really be the same if set somewhere else? In another time? Describe the setting.

CHARACTERS:The forces in a story. Protagonist and antagonist. Who are the main characters? What are they like? How do you know they are the protagonist and antagonist? What role do they have in the story?

PROBLEM:Conflict is a struggle between two opposing forces. Story's climax. Describe the conflict or problem faced by the main character. What type of conflict is it?(Internal? External? Person vs. Person?Etc.)

EVENTS:A series of related events-what happens in the story. This chain of events makes up the basic plot of a story and moves the action along from beginning to end.(Don't give an entire plot summary, but a brief explanation of the key events within the story.)

SOLUTION:As the action subsides, the story eventually arrives at a resolution, or denouement. Traditionally, the problem(s)is solved by the end of the story. How are "problems"solved within the novel? How does the story wrap-up? Or does the author leave things hanging for some reason? If this is the case, why do you think the author chose do do this?

a) Write a comparison/contrast using Shakespeare?s play, Romeo and Juliet, and the film version: note at least three changes and defend why you think the changes were effective or ineffective. Do you think having unknown young actors, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, as opposed to recognizable stars, made the film more or less appealing? Please explain?.


b) Discuss the film version of Tennessee Williams? play, A Streetcar Named Desire, concentrating on three changes specifically due to (1) censorship considerations, (2) the Hollywood studio star system, and so forth. (The original Blanche on the New York stage was an actress named Jessica Tandy, at the time not a Hollywood draw.) Consider the casting of the two leads, Vivian Leigh and Marlon Brando, and the differences in emphasis?if any?between the main character as written in the play and who ends up the main character in the film.


c) Now, also, compare the two films: compared to its play source, which do you think was opened up better cinematically (visually)?

The Writer hophead wrote an outline for this essay, I would like that person to complete the 750 word essay.
If hophead is not available, I can forward the outline.

FICTION ESSAY THESIS AND OUTLINE INSTRUCTIONS

In Module/Week 3, you will write a 750-words (about 3??"4-pages) essay that compares and contrasts two stories from the Fiction Unit. Before you begin writing the essay, carefully read the guidelines for developing your paper topic that are given below. Review the Fiction Essay Grading Rubric to see how your submission will be graded. Gather all of your information, plan the direction of your essay, and organize your ideas by developing a one-page thesis statement and outline for your essay. Format the thesis statement and the outline in a single Word document using MLA, APA, or Turabian style (whichever corresponds to your degree program). You have the opportunity to receive helpful instructor feedback if you submit just this thesis and outline by the end of Module/Week 2. The essay is due by the end of Module/Week 3, and should include a title page, thesis statement, and outline, followed by the essay itself.
Guidelines for Developing Your Paper Topic

Chapter 38 in your textbook provides some helpful pointers for reading actively, taking notes, brainstorming, developing a clearly-defined thesis statement, and preparing an outline. Be sure that you have read the chapter before doing any further work for this assignment.

Choose two of the following short stories to compare and contrast in your essay:
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Destructors by Graham Greene
The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Child by Tiger by Thomas Wolfe
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

Also, make at least one of these elements of fiction the focus of your essay:
Conflict/Plot/Structure
Characterization
Setting
Theme/Authors Purposes
Point of View
Tone/Style/Irony/Symbol/Imagery

If you need help focusing your essay, ask yourself questions that correspond to your chosen element(s).

Conflict/Plot/Structure (This is not a summary of the stories)
What are the basic conflicts, and how do these build tension, leading to major complicated incidents and climactic moment(s)?
What are the ways in which each major character experiences conflict (either with self, with other characters, or with the social and/or physical environment)?
How are the conflicts resolved? Do the protagonists succeed in achieving their goals?
Who receives your deepest sympathy and why?

Characterization
Who are the main characters in the stories?
What are their outstanding qualities? Does the author give any indication as to how or why the character developed these qualities?
What are the characters emotions, attitudes, and behaviors? What do these indicate to the reader about the character?
Can the characters motivations be determined from the text?

Setting
Where and when do the stories take place? (Remember to include such details as geographic location, time of year, time period, if the setting is rural or urban, etc.)
Do the settings make the stories believable or credible? How does setting impact the plot of the story, and how would the plot be affected if the story took place in another setting?
Are the characters influenced by their setting? How might they behave if they were in a different setting?
What atmosphere or mood does the setting create? (For example, darkness may create a mood of fear or unhappiness, while light or bright colors may create one of happiness.)
Is the setting or any aspect of it a symbol or does the setting express particular ideas?
Does setting create expectations that are the opposite of what occurs?

Theme/Authors Purposes
What is the major theme (or themes) of each story?
Are the themes of the stories similar or different?
How does the author convey the theme (or themes) to the reader?
How do the stories themes relate to the authors purposes? (Some examples of author purposes are to entertain, to satirize, to realistically portray lifes problems, to analyze emotions and responses, and/or to communicate a moral message.)
What unique style, techniques, or devices do the writers use to communicate their themes?

Tone/Style/Irony/Symbol
How would you describe the tone of the piece?
Does the tone correspond with the action occurring in the plot?
What style does the author use? (For example, one way an author might satirize is by including a lot of ironies, hyperbole, and unrealistic scenarios.)
How might the story be different if the tone or style is changed?
Does the writer use irony or symbols to communicate the message?


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FICTION ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS

you will write a 750-word essay that compares and contrasts 2 stories from the Fiction Unit. Before you begin writing the essay, carefully read the guidelines for developing your paper topic that are given below. Review the Fiction Essay Grading Rubric to see how your submission will be graded. Gather all of your information, plan the direction of your essay, and organize your ideas by developing a 1-page thesis statement and outline for your essay. Format the thesis statement and the outline in a single Word document using current MLA, APA, or Turabian style (whichever corresponds to your degree program).
The essay must include a title page (see the General Writing Requirements), a thesis/outline page, and the essay itself followed by a works cited/references page of any primary or secondary texts cited in the essay.
Guidelines for Developing Your Paper Topic

Chapter 39 in your textbook provides some helpful pointers for reading actively, taking notes, brainstorming, developing a clearly-defined thesis statement, preparing an outline, and writing a cogent fiction essay. Be sure that you have read the chapter before doing any further work for this assignment.

Choose 2 of the following short stories to compare and contrast in your essay:
? ?The Lottery? by Shirley Jackson
? ?The Destructors? by Graham Greene
? ?The Rocking-Horse Winner? by D.H. Lawrence
? ?Young Goodman Brown? by Nathaniel Hawthorne
? ?The Child by Tiger? by Thomas Wolfe
? ?The Most Dangerous Game? by Richard Connell

Also, make at least 1 of these elements of fiction the focus of your essay:
? Conflict/Plot/Structure
? Characterization
? Setting
? Theme/Authors? Purposes
? Point of View
? Tone/Style/Irony/Symbol/Imagery

If you need help focusing your essay, ask yourself questions that correspond to your chosen element(s).

Conflict/Plot/Structure (This is not a summary of the stories)
? What are the basic conflicts, and how do these build tension, leading to major complicated incidents and climactic moment(s)?
? What are the ways in which each major character experiences conflict (either with self, with other characters, or with the social and/or physical environment)?
? How are the conflicts resolved? Do the protagonists succeed in achieving their goals?
? Who receives your deepest sympathy and why?

Characterization
? Who are the main characters in the stories?
? What are their outstanding qualities? Does the author give any indication as to how or why the character developed these qualities?
? What are the characters? emotions, attitudes, and behaviors? What do these indicate to the reader about the character?
? Can the characters? motivations be determined from the text?

Setting
? Where and when do the stories take place (remember to include such details as geographic location, time of year, time period, if the setting is rural or urban, etc.)?
? Do the settings make the stories believable or credible? How does setting impact the plot of the story, and how would the plot be affected if the story took place in another setting?
? Are the characters influenced by their setting? How might they behave if they were in a different setting?
? What atmosphere or mood does the setting create (for example, darkness may create a mood of fear or unhappiness while light or bright colors may create one of happiness)?
? Is the setting or any aspect of it a symbol or does the setting express particular ideas?
? Does setting create expectations that are the opposite of what occurs?

Theme/Authors? Purposes
? What is the major theme (or themes) of each story?
? Are the themes of the stories similar or different?
? How does the author convey the theme (or themes) to the reader?
? How do the stories? themes relate to the authors? purposes (some examples of author purposes are to entertain, to satirize, to realistically portray life?s problems, to analyze emotions and responses, and/or to communicate a moral message)?
? What unique style, techniques, or devices do the writers use to communicate their themes?

Tone/Style/Irony/Symbol
? How would you describe the tone of the piece?
? Does the tone correspond with the action occurring in the plot?
? What style does the author use (for example, one way an author might satirize is by including a lot of ironies, hyperbole, and unrealistic scenarios)?
? How might the story be different if the tone or style is changed?
? Does the writer use irony or symbols to communicate the message?